The cretins at BBC dare to compare Sanders and Corbyn!!!
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Is Bernie Sanders the American Jeremy Corbyn?
By Brian Wheeler
Political reporter
30 January 2016 UK Politics
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Image copyright OTHER Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn
He is the veteran socialist that no one gave a prayer to - but now Bernie Sanders is starting to be seen as a serious contender to be the Democrats' presidential candidate. Does that remind you of anyone?
Who is Bernie Sanders?
A self-declared "democratic socialist" - a rare beast indeed in American politics - the 74-year-old Vermont senator has stunned the Democrat establishment by emerging from nowhere to challenge Hillary Clinton to be the party's candidate for the White House in November's general election.
Could he be the next US president?
He has to win the Democratic nomination before he can think about winning the White House.
So could he do that?
The polls suggest he is in with a chance of victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, the first stage in the marathon process by which American parties select their presidential candidates. And he is ahead in the polls in the next primary, eight days later in New Hampshire. But Hillary Clinton, the establishment candidate, retains a comfortable lead in national polls of Democrat supporters, and most pundits think that when the contest heads into the larger states, the Sanders campaign will falter. It would be hard to see how a rank outsider, with no track record in government, could actually win this thing.
That's what they said about Corbyn
The comparisons are irresistible.
They are both silver-haired socialists who rail against inequality and the political establishment - and make the style police despair. Few outside of politics had heard of them this time last year. Both men were reluctant to enter their respective contests and did not think they stood a chance of winning, but thought it might give a voice to the Left, as Sanders confessed to Politico in March .
They share a political philosophy
Image caption Larry Sanders is a Green Party activist in Oxfordshire
"There are obvious connections between the Bernie and Jeremy candidacies," said Larry Sanders, Bernie's older brother, a Green Party activist who lives in Oxfordshire, when he spoke to the BBC's Esther Webber last summer . "They support similar policies; their central theme is the reversal of the redistribution of wealth and income from the majority to the very richest people."
But they are very different characters
Sanders is a famously grouchy, old school Noo Yawker. The Washington Post described him as a "member of the 'get off my lawn' caucus" in a piece entitled Seven Ways Bernie Sanders Reminds us of our grumpy grandpa . Jeremy Corbyn is every bit as earnest as Sanders, with no time for "personality politics", but he comes across as a more mild-mannered individual. More geography teacher than angry cab driver.
Different backgrounds too
Like Corbyn in last summer's Labour contest, Sanders makes a point of avoiding personal attacks, saying he wants to concentrate on the issues. They both cut their campaigning teeth in the anti-war movements. Sanders has more experience of running things than Corbyn, having served three terms in the 1980s as the independent mayor of Burlington, a small city in liberal Vermont, before becoming the first Independent to be elected to the US House of Representatives in 40 years. Mr Corbyn had a brief spell on Haringey Council before becoming an MP in 1983 but, unlike Sanders, he has always been a party man.
"I have to admit, I'm not the hippest guy around," Sanders told CNN this week . But for his thousands of young supporters at rallies and on social media, that may be the point. The Millennials, as the generation who came of age after the 2008 financial crash are known, are disillusioned with politics as it is currently practised and for many, it seems, Sanders offers something radically different and appealing. Jeremy Corbyn tapped into a similar feeling last year among young left-wingers in the UK, and like Sanders, ran a highly effective social media campaign. Corbyn supporters rallied round the twitter hashtag #JezWeCan. Sanders fans have got #FeelTheBern.
